doublecross

Bugera got a bad rap early on due to a production rush by its parent company Behringer, Kind of a long story, but as the story goes Behringer had a big shake up when a new CEO took over and wanted to change their image of being associated with Chinese made garbage, In which the birth of Bugera also ensued, One big problem though, it backfired, These things were breaking down faster than you could get them out of the box, and most were blatant rip offs of other manufactures designs, In which case the law suits were plentiful, Fast forward a bit and we see Behringer take control of its own manufacturing, Of course still in China but now they can oversee their own quality control and work the bugs of the past out. Today their line up has been streamlined down to a fraction of what was once offered, Due to the lawsuits no doubt, and of course damage control. As in lets just perfect these few and make sure they don't leave us with mud on our faces again, Their Infinium thing is nothing new as self biasing amps have been around for quite some time, They just put a few twists on it is all, Another thing you need to remember is just about all major manufactures build most of their amps in China, and Bugera does it no better or worse than any of them these days, You should hear some of the horror stories about the Chinese made Marshalls, I have a TriRec I bought as a back up, Not that I've had to use it as a backup but some of my buddies have, Yea they were on that Marshall bandwagon too, As to rock and metal it ripped their broken down Marshall a new behind in most cases, Has more of a Mesa triple vibe to it, Which I'm pretty sure is what its trying to rip off, But at least this time they didn't try and make it look like a Mesa like they did with the Magician, Mesa MK4 anyone? Oh and how about that Bugera BC-30, Yea the legal team at Matchless had a field day with that one,